The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-04-29

OK the night of the 18th the barn of
John Grimths, four miles south of Bailey
vile, Kas.. was burned, together with
seventeen horses and thirteen head of
cattle This is the third year in success
| sion that Mr. Grifith has lost his barn
and stock by fire.
THE Chicago limited express struck
John Becker, his wife and two-year-old
child at the n tnhe.m crossing Of the
Pennsylvania railroad in Lancaster Pa,
on the 18th, killing both parents instantly.
The child was found on the cowcatcher
uninJured.
ALF. CUNNINGHAsI, one Of the murder
ers of Captain Six-Killer in the Indian
4 Territory, has boen caught and landed in
/ jail.
THE jury in the case of Napoleon B. Met
4 calfe, for the killing of Miss Frances Fox
/ at Middleton, Conn, last January, re-
4 turned a verdict of acquittal on the goth,
/ on the ground of insanity. He was or
/ dered TO be confined for twenty years in
the State Hospital for the Insane by Judge
i Terrance.
THE elevator owned by the Northwest
| ern Elevator Company of Minneapolis, To-
Gated at Wilmar, Mimi, was burned on
the Goth. Twenty thousand bushels of
4 wheat were destroyed; loss about S22, 600.
THE preliminary hearings in the post
| poned Panhandle railroad robbery cases
came up at Pittsburgh on the 20 tn before
| Deputy Mayor Gripp, and all the prisoners
waived the preliminary examinations and
were held for trial at court. The cases
win probably be tried during the present
/ term
Oh the sIst Benjamin Sisson, Of Sisson-
vile, w. Va, killed his wife with a
/ hatchet.
! A HEAVY gold-brick swindle is said to
\ have been successfully worked on
wealthy gentleman of New York.
JENNIE BOWMAN, a Sc rvant girl, was
! beaten to death in her employers resi-
/ dence at Louisville, KY, on the night of
/ the Goth, by unknown men.
THE United States authorities are after
T. L. Gardner, of Chicago and Cincinnati,
for sending bogus publications through
the mails.
OK the 21st George Miller, Of New York,
| determined on suicide, cut his wrists
| open, stabbed himself in the breast, and
jumpel down two stories, finally succeed
ing in killing himself
OK the 2lst, while walking on the track
| of the BaltimC re & OHIO railroad, near
| Everson, Pa, two ladies, Mrs. Gettemy
and Mrs. Anderson, were struck by
| shifting engine and terribly mlngled.
Tho former died in a few hours, and Mrs.
| Anderson is in a serious condition.
4 GOVERNOR FORAKER Of Ohio has COM
! muted the death sentence of Delaney JEFF
| AGEaoh DOWAlli5 70 lAl pEASuuLl6ub AOt l146
| Bowling was convicted CT murder IN
the first degree for the kill
| ing of John Douglass, and
| sentenced by the Common Pleas Court of
! Licking County to be hanged.
A HURRICANE swept over portions of Ar
kansas, Missouri and Kansas on the 221.
A large number OF people are reported
| killed, many injured, and vast amount of
/ property destroyed.
FRANK NJ. SCOTT the bookkeeper of
| Webster q Co, Now York, who embezzled
SlO1, SIS, received a sentence of six years
on the 23d.
WOLF PINK, Polish pawnbroker, was
enticed from his place of business at Lead
! City, OAK, on the 221, and while he was
out his place was robbed Of 3, 500 in
jewelry. Five men have been arrested on
suspicion.
A FRIGHT train going west on the
Grand Trunk railway went through the
bridge over Nash's creek, near Morris
burg, Ont, on the POI. Thu engineer and
fireman were killed and brakeman was
badly injured. Thirteen loaded cars
were piled into the gorge and smashed to
atoms
church at ST. Petersburg committed sui
eide on the 21st by jumping from a win
dow of his house. On being searched the
house was discovered to be a Nihilist rem
devious. A quantity of dynamite, arms
and revolutionary documents were found.
SAMUEL d. CONNER, wealthy gentle
man, owner Of considerable mining prop
erty in the West, principally in Colorado,
| and a step-son of General William Lilly,
of Carson County, Pa, committed suicide
in the Monument cemetery, Philadelphia,
on the 22d, by shooting himself through
the heart He had been married the day
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